[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In einer eMail vom 26.10.2006 20:58:40 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit > schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Several more at Art Robb's site: >> >> http://www.art-robb.co.uk/EG.html > > > Interesting indeed! > > The one at the bottom of the page has a lute body. Somewhat > reminiscent of my Wandervogellaute, but with Preston-style machines! > > Is this "lute-guittar" unique, or are others known?
It's certainly not unique. They weren't common but numbers of them do survive. Some French 'German guitars' (cistre ou guitthare allemandes) were made 'en luth' too. As far as I'm aware these sort of instruments in Britain were simply referred to in their time as 'guitars' or 'guittars' just like the cittern-shaped ones and they were tuned and played in the same way. So: "lute-guitar-citterns" - but they were never referred to as such - they were guitars, German guitars or English guitars. I've just posted a message asking for help about fretting positions and I mentioned J. Carpentier's 'Methode' (Paris1771). Carpentier discusses what he calls the the 'cythre en luth' in great detail. I just looked up the studia-instrumentorum site ( http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/katalog_zistern.htm looking for a lute-shaped cittern and found this: http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/ZISTER/3358.htm That thing really has me puzzled - given the date of c1760. Looks like a traditional cittern half neck and cittern peg box. And it looks like it has metal frets and strings passing over the bridge and attaching at the tail, like a cittern. But twelve pegs and six pairs of strings? Of course it could be a one-off thing that happens to have survived. > > Speaking of body shape - aren't there English guitars with vaulted > backs built of parallel staves, like the Boehm Waldzithern? > > What will turn up next? > > Cheers, > John D. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
